Staying Healthy in Spite of Stress

 

1. How does stress affect the body?

 

 

 

 

2. What does the hypothalamus do?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Why does our body produce cortisol?

 

 

 

4. In modern stressful situations where your teacher, for example, isn’t really going to inflict bodily harm on you if you can't finish all your homework for next class the cortisol is still produced. How does this hurt you?

 

 

 

5. How does too much stress affect your immune system?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. How should you change your behavior so you can slow the emotional pace of your life and tame the stress that could be making you sick?

 

 

 

 

7, How should you turn off the physical symptoms of stress?